Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dbc09cb1d49af5c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: 225c1481f80317c0bd70ceb7fe9fc4ee SHA-1: cc5daffaf6b1a672d36dd976e718b10c1a7cfcfd SHA-256: 8dbc09cb1d49af5c6ee354516a2e7c1b95cc9b41eb7eaeffd89a23c8f5be7541
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious File

The file is identified by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', a known Qbot variant. This indicates the Excel file likely functions as a dropper, intended to download and execute a malicious secondary payload. The primary attack vector is likely through social engineering, tricking the user into opening the malicious attachment.

Heuristics 1

  • ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0